162 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



dense, many-flowered. Flowers under "15 in. long, surrounded by 

 numerous scarious broad acute bracteoles. Galyx campanulate, '15 in. 

 long, the mouth wide and divided into 4 large triangular sub-acute 

 ciliate lobes. Gorolla tubular, connected by the calyx-lobes, glabrous, 

 the mouth with 4 lanceolate sub-acute much reflexed lobes. Fruit 

 oblong, crowned by the large incurved calyx-lobes, glabrous, '15 in. long; 

 seeds numerous. G. Don Gren. Syst. III. 525 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 III. 61. H. argentea, Wall. Cat. 858. 



In all the provinces, common. — Uistrib. Borneo ; Sumatra. 



Var. nicoharica. Leaves narrowly elliptic, 3'5 to 5"5 in. long and 

 •8 to 1"4 in. broad, much tapered at either end ; the petioles "3 or '4 in. 

 long; cymes half as long as the petioles, with fewer flowers than in the 

 type. ? M. carnosa, Korth. iu K'ed. Kruidk. II. 161. 



NicoBAR Islands : King's GoUector 506, 



10. Hedtotis macrophtlla, Wall, in W. & A. Prodr. 408 (excl. syn.) 

 A low shrub ; stem short, as thick as a swan-quill ; branches thinner 

 than a goose-quill, pale when dry, acutely 4-angled and sometimes 

 winged, glabrous. Leaves membranous, shortly petioled, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, shortly acuminate or acute, the base broad, narrowed, or 

 rounded; upper surface olivaceous when dry, glabrous, sometimes 

 scaberulous ; the lower pale brown, glabrous, sometimes puberulous on 

 the midrib and nerves ; main-nerves 6 or 7 pairs, curved, ascending, 

 rather distinct; length 3 to 6 in.; breadth 15 to 3 in. ; petiole '3 to '7 

 in. Stipules cupular, hairy, truncate, with 8 to 10 stout erect pubescent 

 bristles. Cymes axillary, sessile, globular, many-flowered, densely 

 crowded, '5 in. across. Flowers l in. long, sessile or shortly pedicelled, 

 mixed with linear hairy bracteoles some of them longer than themselves. 

 Calyx com-pvessed, narrowly funnel-shaped, pubescent, the 4 lanceolate 

 lobes as long as the tube. Corolla pubescent, shorter than the calyx- 

 lobes ; its lobes 4, broad, blunt. Capsule many-seeded, ovoid, hairy, 

 not longer than the persistent calyx-lobes. Wall. Cat. 841 ; Hook, fil, 

 Fl. Br. Ind. III. 54 (excl. syn.) H. nodiflora, Wall. 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 2889 in part. Penang : Wallich. 



The description given above is founded on the Penang plant on which Wight 

 and Arnot based the species. In the Kew Herbarium the species issued by Wallich 

 as H. nodiflora (Cat. 855) has been put with this, the latter seems, however, to be 

 a totally different species with much narrower leaves and smaller heads with fewer 

 flowers. 



11. Hedtotis Kunstleri, King n. sp. Herbaceous, erect, 12 to 

 .18 in. high ; stems glabrous, thinner than a goose-quill, acutely 4- 

 angled. Leaves membranous, oblong-elliptic, tapering to each end but 

 more gradually to the apex than to the base, both surfaces glabrous, 



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